The water and sewerage industry has been privately ... the regulator asked customers to pay the companies – sought a balance-sheet ratio between debt and equity of 60:40. The ratio, which ...

However, any proposed investment would significantly strengthen Thames Water’s balance sheet, while also expanding the Hong Kong tycoon’s sprawling network of assets in the UK. As well as a ...

Water privatisation is a classic example of the kind of behaviour Labour would be expected to rail against but some estimates suggest a temporary nationalisation would cost £2bn a year.

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Thames Water is in purgatory ... on top of an already creaking balance sheet. Under the UK system companies are allowed to make fixed returns set by ...

Britain’s Southern Water Ltd. is trying to fix its finances in an effort to preserve its investment grade status, safeguard its balance sheet — and avoid the same debt woes as Thames Water.

Thames Water, which supplies a quarter of the UK ... even more than happened at many counterparts, leveraged up its balance sheet to the hilt to maximise returns. A regulatory focus on consumer ...

There is a parallel effort to raise billions of pounds in new equity to fix Thames Water’s balance sheet, overseen by Rothschild & Co. Rothschild initially approached more than 50 potential ...